Currently, all our 64-bit vm's (sparcv9, ia64, amd64) treat the "-client" vm option as an error.  While this is reasonable since only the server compiler exists for those platforms, having "-client" issue a warning issue or be a silent alias for "-server" would aid portability of scripts.
            
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                    JDK-6577429 java -d64 should work consistently (inconsistent behavior on windows-amd64) -           
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                    JDK-6234127 AMD64: java -client -version shows Error message with windows-amd64 -           
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                    JDK-4764675 Remove the launcher jvm.cfg file -           
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